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Melissa McCarthy got Saturday Night Live in the holiday spirit with a festive opening monologue, where she was toppled by a huge faux snowstorm. After a few weeks off air, the two-time Oscar nominee began the episode by celebrating how “great” it was to be back for her sixth time hosting the sketch comedy series….
“Had we not gone forth with the film and the Standing in the Gap Fund, she would have been just another dead Black person.” These chilling words were uttered to me recently by Pamela Dias, the mother of Ajike “AJ” Owens, about her daughter. Viewers of the Netflix social-justice sensation The Perfect Neighbor will know…
The Testaments is ready to go back to Gilead. Hulu’s highly anticipated sequel series to The Handmaid’s Tale got a first look and premiere month on Saturday, the news coming out of CCXP25 Brazil. The Testaments, based on Margaret Atwood’s 2019 Booker Prize-winning sequel novel of the same name, will premiere April 2026 on Hulu…
After more than three decades as a dogged movie reviewer, most recently as chief critic for the U.K.’s Screen International, Fionnuala Halligan stepped inside the film festival machinery earlier this year to accept the role of the Red Sea International Film Festival‘s director of international programs. Halligan began her career in Hong Kong at The…
From: Streaming Platform CEO To: Award-Winning Showrunner The classically elegant Portofino Automatic Day & Night 34 by IWC is crafted of a silver-plated dial with a day/night complication at 6 o’clock, all in a 34mm rose gold case; $18,500, at IWC Schaffhausen, Beverly Hills Courtesy of Brand From: High-Powered Agent To: Top Box Office Star…
Indian director Nerraj Ghaywan’s powerful true-to-life tale of friendship and loss, Homebound, begins with a simple plan that quickly unravels: Two childhood buddies, Shoaib (Ishaan Khatter) and Chandan (Vishal Jetwha), are both applying to become state police officers. But their country’s stilted bureaucracy, along with institutional racism and classism, sends them on diverging career paths…
Paradise is ready to reveal more secrets in season two. The twisty post-apocalyptichit drama from This Is Us creator Dan Fogelman ended on a major cliffhanger and made good on a big promise that much more will be revealed when season two returns, which is all part of Fogelman’s three-season master plan. On Saturday, coming…
It’s official: Blumhouse is back in fine form. Five Nights at Freddy’s 2, opening two months after Blumhouse hit Black Phone 2 debuted, is on course to win the weekend with a sizeable $56.6 million from 3,412 theaters at the domestic box office to score the top opening ever for the post-Thanksgiving frame, among other…
Tucked down a narrow alleyway off the Sunset Strip lies one of Hollywood’s most enchanting shops. Founded by father and son Harvey and Louis Jason in 1998, Mystery Pier Books is a bookstore specializing in rare first editions, many of them signed. Recognized by the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers as one of the world’s…
In 1998 I was an aspiring screenwriter living in a small apartment in Hollywood. The building was across the street from a liquor store with a red neon sign that would blink on and off, reflecting on me in what I imagined to be a film noir-ish way as I sat at the computer, channeling…
